Dennis Lehane said it was exceptional. Anita Shreve said it was brilliant, profound and suspenseful. Lionel Shriver said it was a cracking good thriller. Snapped up by more than thirty publishers and acquired for film, S. J. Watson's astonishing debut, Before I Go to Sleep, is the must-read book of the year.
Each night when Christine Lucas goes to sleep her mind erases the day.
Each day she wakes in a strange bed with a man she has never seen before. He explains that he is Ben, her husband, that she is forty-seven years old, and that an accident long ago damaged her memory.
Each day she tries to reconstruct her life, her identity, her marriage.
But how can she know who she is if she forgets her past?
How can she love someone she can't remember?
Are there things best forgotten?
And why is she so frightened?
'A deeply unsettling debut that asks the most terrifying question-what do you have left when you lose yourself?' Val McDermid
